St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-21
WHAT rs REST?
The Different Ideas Some People
Have i'm Regard tn 1t.


tRest'"-Psalm $50, Matt. XII, 20: Job
voiced the divine decree as well as his per-
sonul experience when he said IMAM that is
born OF woman is of few day and full of
trouble" Look when and where we may we
find birth and death. The mad work, whirl
and worry of an existence which like the
troubled sea casts up mire and dirt. The
| fitful fever was not found in the cool of the
| morning when Adam spoke to his Creator
and loved him freely and fully, rather later
in the day of his sin when he left Eden with
bowed head and aching heart, when his
| mutiny was rewarded with penalty and con-
| fusion. when his alliance with Satan ushercd
| in a reign of terror which brought death into
! our world and all our woe.
Although fallen man was not utterly cast
down, he remembered his high origin and
destiny and sought out various ways by which
to pour the oil of consolation upon the
| troubled waters. He sought rest in physical
pleasures. With an epicurean deity, and
religion of animalism he threw loose reins
upon passion and allowed instinct unbridled
to run into free and excessive habit.
Byrons confession was the conclusion, MY
days are in the yellow leaf, the flowers aud
fruits of love are gone; the worm, the
canker and the grief mine alone.'
He sought rest in vast wealth. He Worshiped
the almighty dollar, saying this is our god
VINO brings us out of the land of want, OBJ
security and degradation to places of plenty,
publicity and happiness. But too selfish am
btion has been the fruitful mother of many
| vices and the cursed thilst of gold has been
| the price of many crime untold. He sought
| rest in study. He plunged into tt G Lethe of
| speculative inquiry. But an imperfect mind
| could not find out perfect God. The CID
! philosophy of despair gave way to the new
| one of exhaustion, and. in the words of
! Goethe, he has come back Sorrowing and dis
satisfied with the vanity of sclence:' or, like
| SchillerS diver, has never returned. Man
was blind to the cause of his unrest and weak
in its cure. Dissatisfied and disappointed he
pressed dreadingly toward the storm-hung
| future, signing with David or singing with
| Mendelssohn: "Oh had but wings, the wings
of dove, far, far away would L roam in the
wilderness, make me a nest and 1 shall re-
main there forever at rest" The Saviour
| foresaw the desire that would gain possession
of his disciples and prayed, mot that they
| shouldbe taken out of the, world, but kept from
the evil in it, The three only prayers not
| granted to Bible saints are, Ito be taken out
of the orld,''-Moses in his yexation
| Elijah when fearful, and Jonah
when proudly personal. If such
| prayers were answered we could not
rightly estimate atoning blood and interees-
sion and could not exhibit the faith. courage
and patience Of good soldiers. Christ de-
| sires Us to be the light and salt of the world
in the place of evil and yet above the power
| of evil-a Daniel III Babylon and Joseph in
| Pharaoh's court. Every heart has and knows
sorrow and bitter cup; but is ''to suffer and
be strong No matter whether our unrest
| be physical, mental or such as is brought
| about by the Phariseeism, stupidity and con-
ceit of others, instead of wishing with Shelley
| to sit down like q tired child and weep away
our life Of care, let US say as job, '.All the
days Of my appointed time will 1 wait till my
! change comes.' Destiny will not cease
| dragging us through life's wilderness. If we
are to have rest it will not be in quitting our
busy career, but in fitting ourselves to our
| sphere. Our restless extremely is Gods
| opportunity. As the night sets the diamond
| stars so the loneliness and weakness of Hagar
| in the wilderness aud Jacob II Bethel brought
the divine companionship of Him who not
only knows the disease, but the cure, and
| says, "Come unto Me and 1 will give you
| rest
Rest of forgiveness. Because the yulture
of sin which gnawec the Promethean heart of
humanity was slain when He died on Calvary,
| making it in ours to have lie and rest more
! abundant.
| 2. Rest of restored relation to God, which
! opens way of communication between eartl,
| and heaven and enables the child of earth tn
look up to his Father as the babe does into
the loving depths of Il mothers eyes.
3. Rest of restored faculties of soul so that
capacities are adjusted to means of enjoy
ment. Love is made High Priest and King
and all mems good becomes each mans rule.
There remalneth rest for the people of God,
not to be delivered from duty but helped over
difficulty. If with Paul we ''desire to depart
and be with Christ let us also with him be
willing to ''be content, TO abide in the flesh. -
To any sinner seeking rest, who would take
the wings of the morning and fly to the utter.
most parts of the earth to secure il, say you
cannot get away from your sinful self. Rest
can only be found in Him who has promised
what ancient philosophy and modern cul-
ture cannot grant. Rest not in the world
with its pleasures, riches and wisdom: rest
not in the law with its curse of wrath and i'm
pending justice; rest in Hin who as the rev.
citation of the Fathers love will help you to
know and feel repose which is to be com
plete and eternal by the unrippled sea OF
glass beside the great white throne.